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The Gray Fog - Version 6 vs Version 7
May 30, 2026, 10:05 PM
Hedged the unconfirmed in-game Gray Fog mechanics (sanity drain, past-event projection, test-scope inference); cosmology stays framed as source material and disambiguated from the beta test
May 31, 2026, 10:48 AM
Removed duplicate in-body wikilinks
11Overview22The Gray Fog (灰雾) is a higher-dimension layer floating above the visible world in Lord of Mysteries. It is one of the source material's most distinctive cosmological structures: a roiling sea of grey vapour that holds the Sefirah Castle and is the venue for Tarot Club gatherings, Mr. Fool's domain, and certain high-Sequence Beyonder rituals. Mortals cannot enter it physically; only consciousness can travel through it, and only with high-Sequence Beyonder skill or specific ritual aid.44What the Fog Is66The Fog is described in the source material as a buffer dimension between the mortal Northern Continent and the deeper cosmic strata above. Its grey vapour obscures sight, distorts identity, and protects lower-Sequence Beyonders from direct exposure to higher-Sequence powers and Outer Gods. The Sefirah Castle floats inside the Fog: a fortress-palace structure that contains thrones for each of the 22 Pathway deities, throne stones connected to the world's mythological structure, and ritual spaces used by Klein Moretti in his Mr. Fool persona.88The Fog is the venue for the Tarot Club's weekly gatherings. Members project their consciousness through the Fog to arrive at the Castle's central table. The Fog's grey vapour acts as a natural identity-obscuring layer: members can speak and trade but cannot identify each other's true faces or voices.1010Crossing Into the Fog1212Mortals cannot enter the Fog physically. Beyonders can project consciousness with three approaches:1414Sequence skill: high-Sequence Beyonders develop natural ability to project across dimensional boundaries. The exact Sequence threshold varies by Pathway.1616Ritual: specific Beyonder rituals temporarily open a window to the Fog. The Tarot Club gathering ritual is the most prominent example: simultaneous synchronised meditation by all Tarot Club members opens a cone of access for the duration of the gathering.1818Mr. Fool's invitation: Klein Moretti can pull other Beyonders' consciousness into the Fog directly. This is how he founded the Tarot Club: the first three members (Klein, Audrey Hall, Alger Wilson) arrived through Klein's pull rather than their own skill.2020Game Treatment2222Where the Gray Fog appears in the game, it serves as a venue for Mr. Fool visions, Tarot Club cinematics, and player-side guild ritual content. Exactly how players reach the Fog has not been detailed; in the source material it is not a place mortals enter freely, and access in the Crimson Test scope: their access is gated through specific story-locked encounters. Pre-release descriptions suggest the Fog could feature in several ways as the game progresses, though none of the following has been confirmed for the current build:2424Mr. Fool ritual cameos: short interactive sequences inside the Sefirah Castle.2626Player Divination Club rituals: shared guild rituals routed through Fog-themed venues.2828High-Sequence advancement ceremonies: certain late-Sequence rituals require a brief Fog projection.3030Endgame story beats: the last Act of the campaign culminates in significant Fog-based encounters.3232Sanity Cost3434Time spent in the Gray Fog imposes a flat sanity tick, consistent with how the source material treats the Fog as a place that taxes the mind. The precise in-game Sanity drain, any named low-Sanity states, and recommended consumables have not been confirmed for the current build.3636The Fog's distortion effect is rendered in-game with a desaturation, grey-vapour particle layer, and an ambient whisper soundtrack. The visual change is dramatic and intentional: the Fog reads as an alien environment even to a player who has spent hours in Backlund and Tingen.3838Past-Event Projection Gameplay4040In addition to the Tarot Club gatherings, Mr. Fool ritual cameos, and high-Sequence advancement ceremonies covered above, the game uses the Gray Fog as a possible venue for past-event projection encounters. This system has not been confirmed for the current build; the description below reflects how it has been characterised rather than a verified feature. In that framing, specific main-campaign beats would project the player's consciousness into recreations of events that occurred during or before the closing of book one of the source material, the eight years between the in-game present and the canonical opening, and certain pre-Fifth-Epoch flashbacks that Klein Moretti's history touches on.4242If this system ships as described, the intent is that inside a past-event projection the player could act, fight, dialogue-check, and roll exploration dice the same way they do in the live world. Past-event projections explicitly allow the player to make different choices than the canonical novel made: a Seer who divines the right answer during a flashback investigation may identify a culprit the original detective missed, an Apprentice may discover a hidden passage the original cast did not know existed, and a Spectator may extract a confession from a character who never confessed on the page.4444Outcomes in past-event projections do not retroactively change the game's main-world present. The canonical timeline holds; past tragedies that played out in the source material remain played out. What the projection does change is the player's downstream progression: scoring an outcome the canonical version did not score unlocks Acting bonuses, side-character relationship beats, and Mr. Fool vision content otherwise unreachable. The studio framed this as a way to close regrets surrounding events of the original work in a different way, not as a mechanism for rewriting the world's history.4646Gray Fog Branding in Game Communications4848SPARK NEXA named the game's second closed beta the Gray Fog Test (灰雾测试), confirmed on May 22, 2026 for a June 26, 2026 launch. The shared name is a nod to this cosmology, but which Gray-Fog-layer encounters appear in the Gray Fog Test build has not been published, and the test name should not be read as a confirmed content list; the section above describing in-fiction Gray Fog mechanics remains the canonical reference for the lore itself.
